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Book review: Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
(Southern Historical Association, 2017-11)Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America by Kevin R. C. Gutzman is not a biography of the famous Founder, nor does it pretend to be. Rather, it offers five critical essays covering significant ... -
Del Norte meets Little Saigon: ethnic entrepreneurship on Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, 1970-2015
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-09)Since the 1970s, a stretch of Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, has seen the growth of both Latino and Asian businesses. Using mapping, data analysis, and historical research, this study compares the growth of ethnic ... -
Book review: Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence. History of Emotions Series
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Risse, who counts the William H. Welch Medal (1988) and Lifetime Achievement Award (2005) from the American Association for the History of Medicine among his many accolades, again focuses his analytical eye on late ... -
Book review: Epidemics, empire, and environments: cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910
(Oxford University Press, 2017-04-19)Michael Zeheter examines the experiences of two British colonial cities (Madras and Quebec) to epidemic disease threats, largely centered on the dread nineteenth-century disease of cholera. Zeheter seeks to compare and ... -
Introduction: Popular music and space in post-war German history
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-05)Scholars are increasingly turning to rock'n’roll and its many genres as a means of exploring the recent past. What is electrifying about popular music in all its myriad forms is that it becomes a channel for rethinking ... -
Crosstown traffic: punk rock, space and the porosity of the Berlin wall in the 1980s
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-05)This paper argues that crosstown traffic in the East and West German punk subculture was an essential aspect of how popular music helped to challenge the political legitimacy of the East German government. West German punks ... -
Book review: Beyond no future: cultures of German punk
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017-04-01)The editors of this slender volume on “cultures of German punk” assign Beyond No Future a significant task: with the emergence of a “subfield” of German punk, this collection hopes to bring together diverse voices while ... -
Book review: Metropolitan preoccupations: the spatial politics of squatting in Berlin
(Oxford University Press, 2017-03-01)While reading Alexander Vasudevan’s monograph on squatting in Berlin, the Rigaer Straße in Berlin-Friedrichshain has again exploded into violence. First occupied during the second wave of squatting in 1990, Rigaer 94 has ... -
"In our image, according to our likeness" : John D. Rockefeller, jr. and reconstructing manhood in post-Ludlow Colorado
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01)John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' s reactions to the Colorado Coal Wars resulted in the creation of the Employee Representation Plan, better known as the Rockefeller Plan. While labor historians identify the Rockefeller Plan as a ... -
Book review: The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
(University of Illinois Press, 2016)In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt seeks to illustrate a common thread in the first century of English colonization in Virginia, namely the popular appeal and impact of violence toward Indians. The brutal race war ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 2, Contemporary Historical Case Studies 1958-1988
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 1, Concept and Methods
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Born in the GDR: living in the shadow of the wall
(SAGE Publications, 2016-04)In the twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in East Germany, Hester Vaizey contends that two competing narratives exist uncomfortably side by side in the public understanding ... -
Book review: How sex became a civil liberty
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016)The US Supreme Court regularly reviews cases dealing with sexual liberty, privacy, and freedom of speech. Where our understanding of sexuality and sexual privacy as a civil liberty originated and how it evolved is the ... -
Commercial conflict resolution across the religious divide in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-09-18)Commercial conflict resolution in the medieval Mediterranean has been treated by a number of scholars in recent years, notably through the use of documents from the Cairo Geniza and the archives of the Italian port of ... -
Book review: Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-07)This work fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of Russian history as well as all of Northeast Asian history. It is the collaborative work of Robert Cribb and Li Narangoa, director of the Mongolia Studies Centre, both of ... -
Krawall in der Zionskirche: skinhead violence and political Legitimacy in the GDR
(SAGE Publications, 2015-04)In 1987, an East Berlin punk concert was attacked by Skinheads. This event and others like it provoked sustained outcry in the German Democratic Republic in the last years of the 1980s. The political opposition transformed ... -
Book review: Siberia: a history of the people
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-04)This volume joins a growing literature on the history of ethnography in Russia and the Soviet Union. The collection includes essays by scholars from German, Russian, American, Swiss, British,and Austrian institutions. ... -
Chapter 4 -- In order to form a more perfect worker: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and reform in Post-Ludlow Southern Colorado
(University of Colorado Press, 2014)The tumultuous events of the winter and early spring of 1913–14 transformed the coalfields and company towns of southern Colorado and marked a new episode in relations between labor and management. In the aftermath of the ... -
Book review: Main street Oklahoma: stories of twentieth-century America
(Southern Historical Association, 2015-02)Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both ...
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